Eurasian Vegetarian Society

Vegetarinskomu Society of Russia - 109 years!
MOSCOW

December 1 marks 109 years since the establishment of the first Vegetarian Society of Russia. Since the October Revolution, the Soviet government tried every means to destroy and discredit the idea of vegetarianism. Shelters for vegetarians label "adherents of western pseudo-culture", "sectarianism" and "vermin of the Soviet health" - the authorities have closed all the vegetarian society, for many years pursued the leaders of the vegetarian movement, hampered the development of medicine and the production of vegetarian foods, and destroyed the culture of the Russian vegetarian diet, planted in the minds of the population the idea that vegetarianism - not spiritual, moral life, but only vegetable diet. The purpose of a vegetarian movement - is to improve the physical, mental and spiritual health of the nation, creating a healthy living environment, promotion of healthy lifestyles. Congratulations vegetarians Russia with a holiday!

Russia: World Animal Day

The decision to celebrate World Animal Day - October 4, was adopted at the International Congress of the supporters of the movement to protect nature, held in Florence in 1931. Humane Society of the many countries expressed their willingness to annually organize a variety of public events. In Russia, this date is celebrated since 2000 on the initiative of the International Fund for Animal Welfare.

Animal Day is set to raise public awareness of the need to protect the environment, increase activity in the protection of animals. In many Western European countries is that domestic animals - is part of the family, and they have the same rights as other members. Russia firmly holds the second behind the U.S. in the world in the number of pets. In every third Russian family living "smaller brothers".

The holiday is associated with the name of St. Francis of Assisi - the patron of sacred animals, born on October 4, more than 800 years ago and revered in the predominantly Catholic countries.

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Russia vegetarian: "Vita" opens the project to restore the pre-revolutionary Russian history of vegetarianism

We often hear the view that vegetarianism is a kind of buzz phenomenon that came to Russia from the West in recent years. This opinion is a mistake.

This year, "Vita" initiated a unique project designed to tell the Russians about the philosophy of nonviolence and ethical vegetarianism - the way in which thousands of Russians went in early last century. Magazines and books pre-revolutionary period very clearly convey the mood, vital in the creative, progressive circles in Russia: the facts set forth in these miraculously surviving documents show the prime of ethical thought in pre-revolutionary Russia. Vegetarian settlements, schools, kindergartens, canteens - all it really existed in the beginning of last century in different cities of Russia and was destroyed in an instant with the advent of a new political era.

However, these ideas have not been allowed to sink into oblivion. They flared up again today when the animal rights movement is gaining strength in Russia, and in the world. The descendants of those who were destined to die for their humanistic ideas, give them a tribute, restoring pre-revolutionary Russian history of vegetarianism, even if short on time, but no less vivid than in other countries.

"For many months of hard work required in order for us to recover the bits rare archive material, yellowed by time, pages that are crumbling before our eyes, - says Sergey Agabekov the Center for Vita. - Now, as far as bringing the material in the proper form (scan, reconstruction almost blind fragments, clear all text from yatey), we will publish them on the site ".

Today, Vita publishes first recovered paper "Review of Vegetarian, Kishinev, 1909" From it you will learn about the history of the vegetarian movement in various countries, can get acquainted with the draft statute of the All-Russian Vegetarian Society, to read children's letters-vegetarians, vegetarians drama and much- more.

"Hardly anyone would dispute the fact - says the director of" Vita "Helen Marueva - that rejection of lethal food resistance cruelty, the idea of compassion for all living things, have a great future and eventually become the norm. They have mastered the bright minds in different eras, but have always been persecuted, because humanity has sought to live in the wars and violence. But the living germ of goodness, love and harmony, sooner or later will break through any obstacles, and this process we can now observe. Look at how many young people turning toward a vegetarian diet, not wanting to inflict suffering on animals! We are confident that our project will strengthen people in their beliefs, and will help redefine life position to those who have not come to this! "

Europe is becoming a vegetarian

The number of those who shy away from butchers' shops, is growing in Europe. According to the latest Eurispes, less than three years the number of vegetarians in Italy, for example, rose from half to three million people, wrote La Repubblica.
For the most part, the newspaper notes, so-called "no orthodoxy" vegetarians who consume dairy products, eggs and fish. They have a pretty specific approach to nutrition, but nevertheless they are well-respected social group.
Scientists say that the sharp increase in the number of vegetarians is the result of many factors. So, if in Europe the number of opponents of meat grown in the midst of the scandal with Bse, then in the United States was caused by quite different reasons. The fact that the widespread phenomenon of weight loss forced, especially adolescents, to see the meat source of calories and renounce it, that immediately led to a vegetarian hamburger. However, according to experts, it is fraught with more dangers, if you think about the number of sauces, fried and sweet, not having anything to do with animal origin.
Another deterrent to consumption of meat is "humanizing" of animals. This trend resulted from reaching the screen of the first full-length Disney cartoon series and other paintings of animals. In the United States cartoons about animals have become part of everyday life of American children. What child could conceive that sank his teeth into the leg of lamb, similar to the leg Bugs Bunny or a piece of meat cows Clarabella?
As for the Italians, their active enthusiasm vegetarian diet led to obvious social and commercial implications. Let raise his hand the one who has never heard of tofu or soy steak.
As for restaurants, according to a study by the Association vegetarians, they have more than three hundred, besides, many restaurants include menu, wide selection of dishes without animal proteins.
The Mediterranean diet, from this point of view, provides, in this sense, the scope, since its main dishes are pasta and risotto.
Parents worried that their children refuse meat. Meanwhile, nutritionists agree that you can live without meat, if you consume the alternative proteins from dairy products and vegetables, the newspaper said in the article, a translation of which publishes Inopressa.ru.
According to forecasts Eurispes, by mid-century in Italy the number of vegetarians will reach 30 million people and thus exceed the number of meat-eaters. And then for those who like steak will come times of difficulty.
La Repubblica
http://www.nuvse.com/first/FB3?SR=2&LG=2&NWT=0&NWI=66777

Who got the MONEY McDonald's 10 million dollars?

I received a notice from attorneys on the McDonald's lawsuit with information about who was getting the $ 10 million from the settlement. $ 6,000,000 of it is going to what they identify as «vegetarian organizations,» starting with:

Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG) is gettingt $ 1.4 million, the most of anyone.

(Someone told me that VRG opposed the filing of this lawsuit when it came out - can anyone confirm whether that is true? It would seem ironic if they opposed or discouraged filing of this suit and then sought to get money from it.)

ADA Veg Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group (suggested to receive money by McDonald's) $ 500,000
PMRI (Dean Ornish's excellentrg) $ 500,000

NAVS $ 1,000,000
Vegetarian Vision, Inc. $ 250,000
American Vegan Society $ 500,000
Loma Linda University $ 250,000
Tufts University $ 800,000
UNC, Chapel Hill, Dept of Nutrition $ 250,000
Muslim Consumer Group for Food Products $ 50,000
IFANCA $ 150,000

Sound Vision Foundation $ 350,000

Hindu and Sikh groups are listed at $ 2,000,000, and there's a breakdown of nine groups getting as much as $ 700,000 and as little as $ 50,000.

Kosher groups get $ 1,000,000 between May Jewish outfits.

And two orgs listed as «children's groups» are split a million - «Produce for Better Health Foundation» gets $ 500,000 and the Center for Disease Control «Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity» gets $ 500,000.

Some of the groups receiving money makes one wonder whether McDonald's was attempting to give money to groups which could have the least effect in actually promoting a vegetarian message ...

For the oil with a taste of beef McDonald's pay off of $ 10 million

On Tuesday, the court Cook County (Cook), Illinois, USA, has named the 24 associations, which receive from the fast-food chains McDonald's $ 10 million as compensation for moral damage, reports AP.

The point is that visitors without knowing it during the nineties of the last century lived on fried potatoes, cooked in butter with a flavor of beef. Meanwhile, the company stated that the cooking solely on pure vegetable oil.

Разбирательство длилось несколько месяцев после того, как в 2002 году представители McDonald's согласились выплатить определенную сумму в качестве возмещения морального ущерба. Споры возникли по поводу внесенных в список компании возможных получателей компенсации.

Согласно последнему решению судьи, 60 процентов суммы получат вегетарианские общественные организации, 20 процентов – объединения индусов и сикхов, 10 процентов пойдет на помощь голодающим детям и еще 10 – на пропагандирование кошерного питания.

По словам адвоката McDonald's, во всех общественных объединениях из списка компании работают ответственные люди, которые намереваются просвещать население о пользе вегетарианства.

lenta.ru

Фальшивые гамбургеры для начинающих вегетарианцев

В США сегодня более 5.7 млн. вегетарианцев, которые составляют около 3% взрослого населения страны. Вегетарианцы бывают разные: «ово-вегетарианцы» ,которые употребляют в пищу яйца, но не мясо; «лакто-ово-вегетарианцы» , которые едят яйца и молочные продукты, но не мясо; «лакто-вегетарианцы» , употребляющие молочные продукты, однако не притрагивающиеся к яйцам; «веганы» , которые потребляют пищу, изготовленную лишь на растительной основе. Есть также «песко-вегетарианцы» , которые едят рыбу, но не употребляют других видов животного белка и «полло-вегетарианцы» , для которых рыбу заменяет курятина. Опрос исследовательской компании Harris Interactive, проведенный в 2003 году, показал, что наиболее многочисленной группировкой вегетарианцев являются веганы. Их насчитывается от трети до половины среди общего числа вегетарианцев. Среди вегетарианцев женщин почти в два раза больше, чем мужчин. Население Западного побережья США более «зеленое», чем Восточного. Интересно, что среди афро-американцев вегетарианцев больше, чем среди иных расовых групп населения США.

Более того, вегетарианские пристрастия не чужды и обычным американцам, не налагающих на себя вегетарианских обетов: 13% из них отказываются от рыбы, 21% – от меда, 7% – от яиц. Данные опроса Harris Interactive также показали, что никогда мясо не едят 10% жителей США в возрасте от 18 до 45 лет. Более того, кроме самих вегетарианцев, 4% американцев не используют курятину и говядину в своем рационе.

According to the survey, conducted by broadcaster CNN, 30% of Americans make their purchases based on criteria of ecology, social justice and health. And according to the organization Vegetarian Resource Group, about 40% of American society has a positive attitude to products that do not contain meat. For example, even non-vegetarians regularly buy tofu (Japanese bean curd) and soy milk - one of the main sources of protein for vegetarians. In U.S. supermarkets is becoming more and more products that are made exclusively from vegetable components, but marketed under the product categories originally belonged to the meat products - for example, sells vegetarian burgers, vegetarian sausages, vegetarian turkey, etc. According to analysts, food manufacturers thus tend to attract buyers from the category of "beginners" vegetarians who want to simplify your meal parting with animal food ..

In the U.S. there is also a group known as "fleksitarianami", from the English word flexible - «pliant", "flexible". They are also known as "partial vegetarians. This category includes people who from time to time sit down to a vegetarian diet under the influence of information about the dangers of meat. Interestingly, the word "fleksitarianin" was recognized by the American Society of dialects most often abused neologism 2003.

There are several major reasons why more and more Americans are becoming vegetarians.

The most important reason is the hope of improving health. It is believed that a vegetarian diet helps fight high cholesterol levels (contributes to cardiovascular disease), obesity and diabetes. According to the magazine Natural Attitudes, vegetarians suffer from oncological diseases is 40% less than the "carnivores" and 30% less likely to get cardiovascular disease. Moreover, some scholars argue that the human digestive organs are more similar to the digestive system of herbivores than carnivores, and thus, the human stomach and intestines is very difficult to digest meat products.

The second reason for the transition to vegetarian faith - Ethics. Many vegetarians believe (in that they support the adherents of extreme environmental organizations), that cruel and unethical to eat the flesh of living beings.

The third reason for not eating meat - Environmental. Growth of farm animals contributes to environmental pollution and reckless destruction of natural resources. It is known that the rapid development of animal husbandry, oddly enough, does not solve the problem of hunger.

There are also religious and cultural reasons for the transition to a vegetarian diet, especially among the Buddhists, Hindus, people who practice yoga, etc.

The advantages of vegetarianism appreciated enforcement agencies. For example, the Office of the City of San Francisco for prisoners, prison cooperating with other structures of the country, encourages among its inmates consumption vegetarian food. The main reason for this is that as the investigation proves the state administration to monitor food and medicine, herbal diet contains less adrenaline, animal fats and uric acid, whose use is associated with an increased aggressiveness and propensity for violence.

Source: Article published on materials Washington ProFile
Washington ProFile

Water shortages could turn humanity in Vegetarians

∙ BBC News, 16.08.2004

The Stockholm International Water Institute (Stockholm International Water Institute) opened conference "World Water Week» (World Water Week). Among the scientific papers presented at this meeting - the world's dietary analysis of the relationship with the problem of shortage of drinking water on the planet.
One of the conclusions of experts: growing consumption of meat and milk - will not survive. Pets need much more water than grain to produce one and the same quantity of food. Because the worldwide dissemination of Western European or North American sample food, which occupy a large proportion of the diet of meat and dairy products, we face big problems with drinking water, lack of which was already acute in many parts of the world.
So, to grow a kilogram of cereals needs from 0.4 to 3 tons of water, and to grow a kilogram of beef - 15 tons. Experts who prepared the report, stressed that he would not call for a vegetarian diet, because humans Sun ╦ same must be balanced nutrition.
However, water shortages will force people to reconsider their tastes. And, for example, Australia, one of the countries, a shortage of drinking water and importing e ╦, actually - a major export ╦ River water. In the form of meat.

MOST SEXY STARS - VEGETARINTSY

∙ Sem40.Ru, 16.07.2004 Alicia Silverstone recognized the sexiest in the world ... a vegetarian.
More than 12 000 people took part in the voting PETA (Society of ethical treatment of animals), and most of them expressed a preference for Alicia, ignoring Pamela Anderson and Kim Beysindzher. "When I became a vegetarian, my nails became stronger skin - better, and I very much thinner - boasting Alicia. - The transition to vegetarianism - it is probably best. What did I do in life. I became happier and more confident. I made my decision based on my moral principles. "
Member of the rap duo Outkast Andre 3000 (Andre 3000) won the online poll, which determines Sexiest ... vegetarian. Public opinion studies the organization PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).
Sexiest vegetarian named actress Alicia Silverstone (Alicia Silverstone). Among previous winners of the title - the singer Shenayya Twayne (Shania Twain). The survey involved 12,000 people. "I win I'll mention a luxurious gala dinner - said André thankful. - Probably, it will be a dish of cabbage.
I'm still a vegetarian! "Andre 3000 ahead of such artists - participants of the survey, as Anthony Kiedis (Anthony Kiedis; RHCP), BB King (BB King), Annie Lennox (Annie Lennox), Boy George (Boy George), Brian Adams (Bryan Adams), Chrissy Hinde (Chrissie Hynde; The Pretenders), Chris Martin (Chris Martin; Coldplay), Erykah Badu (Erykah Badu), Damon Albarn (Damon Albarn; Blur), Eddie Vedder (Eddie Vedder; Pearl Jam) , Ghostface Killah, Melanie C, Moby, Morrissey (Morrissey), Paul McCartney, Prince, Thom Yorke (Thom Yorke).
http://www.animalrights.ru/

Vegetarians BELGIUM YEARLY will receive 100,000 euros

Belgian Vegetarian Society receives financial support from the government. Belgian Vegetarian Society EVA (Ethical Vegetarian Alternative) EVA (Ethical Vegetarian Alternative) has been confirmed. that starting from 1 January 2005, within 5 years, it will annually receive from the government subsidy - 100.000 EUR (120.000 USD).
EVA - probably one of the first organizations to receive financial support to such a level. Thus, recognizing the value of the social movement for a vegetarian lifestyle and proper vegetarian food money will be used for the purpose of a vegetarian society to disseminate information and create a library vegetarianizme vegetarian literature
Sign in touch:
Tobias Leenaert
EVA (Ethical Vegetarian Alternative)
St.-Pietersnieuwstraat 130
9000 Gent
Belgium
Http: / / www.vegetarian.be

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оказывающих влияние на глобальное потепление, чем все автомобили, грузовики, поезда, корабли
и самолеты в мире вместе взятые. В «Правде о мясе» нет жестких сцен насилия над животными,
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